Royal Pains

The series is based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies. On November 5, 2014, USA renewed the series for season 7 and season 8, with each season consisting of eight episodes. The seventh season premiered on June 2, 2015. The eighth season will air in summer 2016.

Series synopsis

The series follows Hank Lawson, a young emergency room doctor, who after being wrongly blamed for an important patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes a reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the administrator of the local hospital asks him to treat the town's less fortunate, he finds himself walking the line between doing well for himself and doing good for others.

Cast and characters

Main characters

Mark Feuerstein as Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson, a formerly successful New York E.R. doctor, but was dismissed from his job after a wealthy hospital benefactor died in his care. When he saves someone's life during a trip to the Hamptons, he accepts an offer from Boris, a German nobleman, to remain as a "concierge doctor" in the resort community. He usually attends to wealthy clientele, but also others in need of care and often without the means to pay. According to the episode "Keeping the Faith", he and his brother are Jewish.

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Nunez aggravated a right knee injury that sidelined him for 13 games, and Betts came out with pain in his left wrist ...Red Sox lefty Drew Pomeranz (16-6) had his shortest start of the season, giving up five runs and seven hits in two innings ... Betts drove in two runs for the Red Sox, going over the 100-RBI mark for the second consecutive season ... Nunez fouled off a pitch his second time up and went to the ground in pain....

Nunez aggravated a right knee injury that sidelined him for 13 games, and Betts came out with pain in his left wrist ...Red Sox lefty Drew Pomeranz (16-6) had his shortest start of the season, giving up five runs and seven hits in two innings ... Betts drove in two runs for the Red Sox, going over the 100-RBI mark for the second consecutive season ... Nunez fouled off a pitch his second time up and went to the ground in pain....

Nunez aggravated a right knee injury that sidelined him for 13 games, and Betts came out with pain in his left wrist ...Red Sox lefty Drew Pomeranz (16-6) had his shortest start of the season, giving up five runs and seven hits in two innings ... Betts drove in two runs for the Red Sox, going over the 100-RBI mark for the second consecutive season ... Nunez fouled off a pitch his second time up and went to the ground in pain....

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